I have an e-mail account setup with inbox.com (web based e-mail). They have the option to forward e-mails to a conventional e-mail client using pop3 and send e-mails via a conventional e-mail client via smtp which I have setup and and had working for the last couple of years without a problem (I also do the same setup for Yahoo and gmail and they are working perfectly).

The problem I have is that since I upgraded to Mepis 8, kmail is not collecting all the e-mails from inbox.com. If I check the web intereface for inbox.com I can see the e-mails in my inbox, but kmail will collect them as and when it feels like it (it is set to collect every 15 minutes). Say for instance I can see 6 e-mails in my inbox via the web interface, kmail may only collect a couple of those. I have manually run mail collect on the inbox.com account and even though e-mails are there it won't download them. I have spoken to inbox.com tech support and have confirmed the settings I am using are correct.

So I setup the Thunderbird e-mail client and entered all my inbox account details (having removed them from kmail) and that is happily downloading my e-mails from inbox without a problem. Now while Thunderbird is a good email client I prefer kmail as I have spamassassin and klam AV setup in conjunction with kmail and it is working quite well.

So my question is where do I look for the problem in kmail??

Tim

P.S. System details, Distro Mepis 8 (Debian Lenny base), KDE 3..5.10, Kmail 1.9.9

The only reason I can think of that is that kmail refuses to download mails that have already been downloaded/looked at/rejected OR you will find missing mails in your trash folder 'cos it thought they were spam.

You could of course delete ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail and ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc and start over configuring kmail to verify your findings/problems.

HTH

toad wrote:The only reason I can think of that is that kmail refuses to download mails that have already been downloaded/looked at/rejected OR you will find missing mails in your trash folder 'cos it thought they were spam.

You could of course delete ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail and ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc and start over configuring kmail to verify your findings/problems.

HTH

Thanks Toad, you led me to the problem, I had two entries for inbox.com in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail Deleted one shut kmail down and restarted and all is well.

Tim

If this problem is resolved, could you please mark this thread as solved? Thanks in advance. The "It's Solved" button will do this for you.